U+237A Apl Functional Symbol Alpha
U+237A was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Technical in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+237A forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The programming language APL is distinctive in being symbolic rather than lexical: its primitives are denoted by symbols, not words. These symbols were originally devised as a mathematical notation to describe algorithms. APL programmers often assign informal names when discussing functions and operators (for example, "product" for ×/) but the core functions and operators provided by the language are denoted by non-textual symbols.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9082 |
| UTF-8 | E2 8D BA |
| UTF-16 | 23 7A |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 23 7A |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%8D%BA |
| HTML hex reference | ⍺ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⺠|
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 F3 36 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL ALPHA | |
| — | |
| Miscellaneous Technical | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Apl Functional Symbol Alpha | |
| ✘ | |
| Apl Functional Symbol Alpha | |
| Apl Functional Symbol Alpha | |
| ✘ | |
| Apl Functional Symbol Alpha | |
| Apl Functional Symbol Alpha | |
| Apl Functional Symbol Alpha | |
| Apl Functional Symbol Alpha | |
| Apl Functional Symbol Alpha | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Apl Functional Symbol Alpha | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Apl Functional Symbol Alpha | |
| Yes | |
| Apl Functional Symbol Alpha | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Apl Functional Symbol Alpha | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Apl Functional Symbol Alpha | |
| R |